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by tossaway0 3y ago
In a similar vein I was asked by an immigration officer at the airport what I would do if the US went to war with the country I'm from. It threw me completely off guard. I told him that it's lucky that solid democracies seldom go
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by tossaway0 4y ago
I'm Basque but have lived outside the Basque Country for a long time. I actually now find the cultural efforts of the Basque government to have been beneficial, even if most people I know would call them onerous. I think it has played
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by tossaway0 4y ago
I’m a bit ignorant on this, but what are the projections for consequences to ecosystems if we just keep eating to extinction? I ask because your solution seems to just get us to the same place diet wise: having to eat plants now instead of
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by tossaway0 4y ago
I admittedly don’t have much experience with deaf people; I had one acquaintance in high school who was deaf. Hanging out with him made me very aware of how isolating it can be to only be able to participate in conversations where you are a
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by tossaway0 4y ago
It'll finally be the year of the Esperanto lingua franca.
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by tossaway0 4y ago
I'll meet you half way: let's place UTC next to the local time everywhere we can. It could be in parenthesis, in a tooltip, etc. It could get us all used to knowing our time in UTC and eventually help in cross-timezone communicati
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by tossaway0 4y ago
I didn't know that. That said, considering that adopting Unicode was a decision in and of itself, would expanding that space really be such a burden? I'm also now surprised to see that Wales and Scotland get a flag but Northern Ir
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by tossaway0 4y ago
I would like regional flags, even if it would be endless. At some point we're going to need submenus for emoji anyway. Surprised that sunglasses with frown was never submitted.
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by tossaway0 4y ago
I've never had that happen. I only use the mobile app, though. I've read complaints of people getting YouTube recommendations in their YTM. When I first got it, I created a second account/channel in YouTube (same login, just
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by tossaway0 4y ago
We've complained long enough about complexity in code being the barrier to speed. Now it's processing power once again. I'll take it if we can rely on the security.
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by tossaway0 4y ago
I love both your comments. But to dig further, compared to the article, op's comment not only comes off as laid back, as opposed to aggressive and anxiety-inducing, but it also provides an alternative all in the same sentence.
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by tossaway0 4y ago
Even if you don't agree with everything, or the tone, there's a lot to be said for what is expressed in this article. To the points about time spent and business value coming first, I would defend them by saying first that compani
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by tossaway0 4y ago
Two observations: 1. My bank ditched physical locations (for the most part) and now just covers the cost of using other banks' ATMs. 2. The overhead these banks have for just talking to eachother is understandable when you read about t
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by tossaway0 4y ago
That's the difference between living in Munich or São Paulo, or New York and Miami. Different societies have different tolerances for what's on the books and what gets enforced. Personally, I prefer less on the books and proper en